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    bipod mount and a sight. Mortars launch explosive shells (technically called bombs) in high-arching ballistic trajectories. Mortars are typically used as...
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    mortar in use in World War I from mid-1915 to mid-1917. The designation "2-inch" refers to the mortar barrel, into which only the 22 in (560 mm) bomb...
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    also produces mortar bombs for these mortars. Available Ammunition: HE Mk2, high explosive bomb, filled with TNT TP-TM Mk2, inert bomb for training purposes...
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    lightweight bipod mount. When a mortar bomb was dropped into the tube, an impact sensitive primer in the base of the bomb would make contact with a firing...
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    The Ordnance SBML two-inch mortar, or more commonly, just "two-inch mortar", was a British mortar issued to the British Army and the Commonwealth armies...
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    The L16 81mm mortar is a British and Canadian standard mortar used by the Canadian Army, British Army, and many other armed forces. It originated as a...
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    2S12 Sani (category Mortars of the Soviet Union)
    also transports the ammo load: 24 32 kg (71 lb) crates of 120mm HE mortar bombs, 2 bombs per crate, for a total of 48 available rounds. Once on site, it...
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    base cap of the tube, and the bomb was fired automatically when it dropped down the barrel. Though classed as a light mortar, the M2 had considerable range...
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    approximately 4,150 kg (9,150 lb). The HE bomb weighs 130 kg (290 lb), of which 34 kg (75 lb) is the explosive payload. The mortar bomb is almost 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in)...
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    the charge quoted for the mortar in French use for maximum range. "Separate loading ammunition" was used i.e. the mortar bomb was a separate unit from...
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